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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So I read the article about the toy study.  I think you're misinterpreting their findings. The study had nothing to do with how many toys the researchers owned or had on the shelves in their lab.  They were trying to understand how the quantity of toys put in front of the subjects impacted on the quality of play among toddlers. They found that play quality is better when you give the toddlers 4 toys compared to 16 toys. Frankly, this isn't a surprise. From this finding, you should present your toddlers with just a few toys at a time to play with.  It says nothing about the number of toys that you should keep on the shelves or cabinets.

"Researchers observed 36 toddler subjects between the ages of 18 and 30 months in free-play sessions. The toddlers were given either four toys or 16. “There was a significant difference in the quality of toddlers’ play between the two toy conditions,” the study reports. "As measured by sustained play and variety of manners of play, toddlers had a greater quality of play in the Four Toy condition compared to the Sixteen Toy condition." Essentially, when given a few toys, the toddlers played with them in more varied ways and for longer periods of time." https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/singletons/201712/study-underscores-why-fewer-toys-is-the-better-option

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Totally fair and thanks for flagging that. I use open shelving and don’t want to store things away in a garage or elsewhere so less is more for us. The macro point holds. Kids don’t need more. They need less. It’s how they get creative and bored and grow and build. Often you see kids dump alllll their toys on the floor and then they are too overwhelmed to play for long and definitely too overwhelmed to clean up independently. You don’t see that when kids have a few high quality toys. [/quote]

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